Ezra Butler

Ezra Butler (24 September 1763-12 July 1838) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VT) from 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1815 (preceding John Noyes) and Governor of Vermont from 13 October 1826 to 10 October 1828 (succeeding Cornelius P. Van Ness and preceding Samuel C. Crafts).

Biography
Ezra Butler was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1763, and he moved with his parents to Windsor, Vermont in 1770. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War before settling in Waterbury and becoming a lawyer in 1786. He became a Baptist preacher at Bolton in 1800, serving as pastor of a Baptist church in Waterbury from 1800 to 1830. He also served in the State House from 1794 to 1797, from 1799 to 1804, and from 1807 to 1808, in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1815, and as Governor from 1826 to 1828. He died in 1838.